The UK government said it will appoint commissioners to take over the Birmingham City’s council, a dramatic move that underscores the perilous state of local authority finances after years of ...

Birmingham City Council is ending talks to solve the bins strike crisis and staff are set to go. The authority announced today, July 9, that it was shutting down negotiations with the Unite union. It ...

No end for Birmingham's rubbish apocalypse: Six months on the city's streets are still buried under mounds of bags of garbage as strike continues By NOOR QURASHI ...

The Birmingham City Council voted on Tuesday to table a resolution that would have guaranteed their share of public funding to keep the local, private liberal arts college from closing its doors.

The Birmingham City Council team of commissioners - Max Caller, John Coughlan, Chris Tambini, Pam Parke, Jackie Belton, Myron Hrycyk. Political advisors are Lord Hutton and John Biggs, also pictured.

Shirley Perry, from the National Education Union, also urged Birmingham City Council to “put it right” regarding the bins strike dispute. “It’s within your power,” she said.

'Broke' Birmingham city council made almost £3 million in an hour after rapid property auction sales today, Thursday, May 15. All seven assets listed for sale were snapped up after fierce bidding ...

The number of Birmingham City Council staff earning more than £100,000 has tripled in three years - with 57 people at the struggling council now earning six-figure salaries. That's a big leap from ...

A Birmingham City Council meeting has been dramatically halted as leader John Cotton faced angry questions over the bins strike. Birmingham reached a bleak milestone last week - three months since ...

Birmingham housing campaigner Sharon Thompson has announced she is quitting local politics after 11 years, including seven at the heart of the city council leadership. Coun Thompson, currently the ...

Birmingham City Council has developed a 25-year City of Nature plan - a long-term strategy to reconnect people with nature, as well as improve biodiversity, and tackle climate and health inequalities.